--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If one doesn't use the trademark properly, one can lose > > > > it. For example, there was once a trademarked brand of > > > > toilet called a Crapper, but their trademark went into > > > > the crapper. :-) > > > > > > Named for John Crapper, who invented the flush toilet. > > > > > > By the way, why do you think they're called "johns?" > > > > It was Sir Thomas Crapper, plumber by appointment to > > King Edward VII. Really, lads, don't they teach you > > anything at MIU? > > http://www.thomas-crapper.com/history04.htm > > But if Sir Thomas was like most of the other > English lords of his time, he spent a lot of > time with prostitutes. Since they refer to > their customers as "Johns," there could still > be a link. :-) :-) :-)
You must remember that we in the UK do not have a Mother Divine course. Our aristocracy is keen to rehabilitate fallen women and will rarely miss a chance to inject firm support where necessary to achieve the benefits of trickle down, so beloved of your president' defence thinking, I am told. But I don't think you should wager your internal organs on the "johns" issue, Turquoise. Expertise in the fields of the most exotic spiritual scriptures and also pre-Victorian lavatorial plumbing, Turquoise? Truly you are a "Renaissance Man" ! Uns. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/